Re: Storing the contents of a styled editfield...

[Jann Gobble <janngobble@gmail.com>]

I do plan on deploying on linux.

I will test.  Thx Russ!

Jann


On Jun 30, 2009, at 11:43 AM, Russ Tyndall wrote:

> On Jun 30, 2009, at 2:06 PM, Michael Diehr wrote:
>
> > Correct -- EditField.StyledText.RTFData is an string which can be  
> > stored in a text file, and this is enough data to restore an edit  
> > field to its prior state.
> > As long as the RTF data originates in REALbasic, I think it works  
> > ok.   Problems may arise if you try to get RTF from another source,  
> > as the RTF parser in RB is limited.
>
> I haven't done any testing with 2009r2 or 2009r2.1, but I had  
> enormous problems while trying to get this to work on Linux.  At the  
> time it looked like RB was adding spurious characters into the  
> string when creating StyledText.RTFData on Linux that was hosing up  
> the display when the string was pulled back out.
> But everything worked great on Windows and OS X.
>
> So if you plan to deploy to Linux, test thoroughly.
>
> -----------------
> Russ Tyndall
> Wake Forest, NC
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